W1.A.Bahle

Dodecahedron.Bird.House

First I made a test comb to see how the width of the cardboard related to the
size needed for a good fit

For the first week I decided to make a press fit bird house for my friend's bird in the shape of a dodecahedron. It is composed of
pentagon pieces that can fit together to make many different shaped houses or geometrical patterns.
I used Onshape to design the parts and learned how to use the constraint tools as well as the most of the
basic features of the software.

I first tried making a dodecahedron with perforated edges but the laser cutter didn't cut deep enough. But this
was a enought to give me a sense of how everything worked so I went to Onshape and made some little puzzle peices.
I messed up the tolerances so they didn't fit together so well. In the end I made a few different size peices that

The.3D.Model

I also made a few stickers on the vinyl cutter. I tried initially to cut out
a string of letters reprenting the beginning of the amino acid compostion of the NMDA receptor but that didn't work
so well so I also cut out a simpler shape to make sure everything was working properly.